One Safe Place
Last week I was sitting in front of "House" on TV with my flatmates. I wasn't really watching it but fiddling about on my laptop. In the end I was quite hooked though - my biologist curiousity eager to find out what was wrong with the patient's brains. But, as I sat there, twice I heard fragments of a song that really snagged my attention. It turns out the song is called "One Safe Place" by Marc Cohn. I don't own any of his albums but I think I quite like Marc Cohn.
Anyway, jogging around the park this morning I had it stuck in my head (exasperating when you have a song stuck in your head and you know about two lines of the words - I had to look up the lyrics to preserve my sanity).
It's so true isn't it?! What we're all really looking for is that one safe place - physical, emotional, spiritual ... It brought to mind the words of one of my favourite bible verses, which is Deuteronomy 33:27 "The eternal God is your dwelling place, and underneath are the everlasting arms". It's the only truly safe place I know.
And so I do pray that the searching does lift us all higher, into the arms of Love himself.
One Safe Place
by Marc Cohn & Phil Galdston
How many roads you've traveled
How many dreams you've chased
Across sand and sky and gravel
Looking for one safe place
Will you make a smoother landing
When you break your fall from grace
Into the arms of understanding
Looking for one safe place
Life is trial by fire
And love's the sweetest taste
And I pray it lifts us higher
To one safe place
How many roads we've traveled
How many dreams we've chased
Across sand and sky and gravel
Looking for one safe place
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copyright © 2004 Marc Cohn
from the album Album No. 4